#Spike Island

[papa-evershed]

Rob James-Collier | Spike Island

[eyessfullofstarss]

emilia clarke as sally in spike island icons

[thebowerypresents]

Pulp Get Get Reunited with NYC at Kings Theatre

Pulp – Kings Theatre – September 14, 2024

Four decades as a band and the Britpop darlings Pulp haven’t skipped a beat. Lead singer Jarvis Cocker, keyboardist Candida Doyle, guitarist Mark Webber and drummer Nick Banks returned Stateside for the five-city North American leg of their This Is What We Do for an Encore Tour. They hadn’t played the United States since their 2012 Coachella reunion — and it’s been a long wait for their return.

Despite another famed Britpop band’s reunion announcement, the steady and uncomplicated Sheffield, England, four-piece might be the better bet for that nostalgic ’90s alternative-rock laced with melancholy lyrics. After playing Chicago and Toronto, Cocker and company arrived at Brooklyn’s Kings Theatre on Friday for two sold-out appearances. Per the opening intro text projected onstage on Saturday, the night was the band’s 556th show. 

Enshrouded in darkness against a moon, Cocker sang, “I Spy,” but quickly leaped on top of floor speakers to the roar of the crowd. To celebrate Webber’s birthday, Pulp broke from their setlist to play “Bad Cover Version,” and then upon its conclusion, a fan led the audience in a hearty “Happy Birthday” sing-along. In another honorary moment, the band dedicated “Something Changed” to their recently departed longtime bassist Steve Mackey. 

Cocker was the centerpiece on Saturday, gyrating across the stage with freeform movements, from languid voguing to exclamatory leaps. He lounged in an armchair bathed in red before igniting in syncopated arm gestures for “This Is Hardcore.” And then the room was quizzed on the year, month and day of Pulp’s very first show in New York City (as the opener for Blur), a fitting segue into “Do You Remember the First Time?” 

The band would return for not one but two encores. The first was a trio of fan favorites, “Like a Friend,” “Underwear” and “Common People,” while the second offered a new song, “Spike Island,” based on the historic Irish island that housed a former prison and hosted a legendary 1990 Stone Roses concert. Fittingly, Pulp closed with the 1994 standout track “Razzamatazz,” from His ’n’ Hers, and “Glory Days,” off 1998’s This Is Hardcore. —Sharlene Chiu | @Shar0ck

Photos courtesy of Dana Distortion | distortionpix.com

[garadinervi]

The Letters of Rosemary & Bernadette Mayer, 1976-1980, Edited by Gillian Sneed, Marie Warsh, Preface by Eva Birkenstock, Robert Leckie, Laura McLean-Ferris, Stephanie Weber, Texts by Bernadette Mayer, Rosemary Mayer, Gillian Sneed, Lenbachhaus, München / Ludwig Forum, Aachen / Spike Island, Bristol / Swiss Institute, New York, NY, 2022 (pt. 3) (pt. 1 here) (pt. 2 here). Designed by Santiago da Silva and Cecilia Breña [book photographs by Trevor Lloyd]

[theninetiestapes]

The Stone Roses live (audio) @ Spike Island, Widnes, UK 27/05/1990

[phipesquire]

[possible-streetwear]

[willowsfanarts]

get the light in my thoughts - latest artwork

[cynanic]

[spikes-got-anger-issues]

🎉 Chase/Spike's Birthday edition PT. 2 🎉

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[pwinkiepawzz]

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[theprotagonistisdead]

it's so funny to me that in once more with feeling spike goes off on buffy about not having broken into song yet but then immediately sings one about how buffy makes him feel alive. dude forgot why people in musicals sing. because they can't just say their feelings because it's too much. he will tell her more about his feelings for her but not yet. it's still too much right now.

[aromanticbastards]

playing octopath traveler 2 and i love professor scraggly. scholar on a revenge mission wgo mugs npcs. fuck yeah.

[davenportia]

i wonder if billy was paid extra whenever he played spike

i wonder a lot of things about spike davenport. what about y’all?

[garadinervi]

Rosemary Mayer. Ways of Attaching, Edited by Eva Birkenstock, Robert Leckie, Laura McLean-Ferris, Stephanie Weber, Contributions by Eva Birkenstock, Robert Leckie, Rosemary Mayer, Laura McLean-Ferris, Jenny Nachtigall, Jenni Sorkin, Stephanie Weber, Designed by Santiago da Silva and Cecilia Breña, Lenbachhaus, München / Ludwig Forum, Aachen / Spike Island, Bristol / Swiss Institute, New York, NY, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2022 [Exhibitions: Swiss Institute, New York, NY, September 9, 2021 – January 9, 2022 / Ludwig Forum, Aachen, March 5 – May 22, 2022 / Lenbachhaus, München, June 11 – September 18, 2022 / Spike Island, Bristol, October 8, 2022 – January 15, 2023]

[deadthehype]

Behind the scenes of He Got Game movie shoot at Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, New York photographed by David Lee

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